Written answers
Wednesday, 14 January 2015
Department of Education and Skills
- School Transport Expenditure
751. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the school special transport grant will be paid at the end of each school term instead of the end of the school year. [49436/14] - Vocational Education Committees Accounts
752. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the accounts of Cork County Vocational Education Committee for 2011 are completed; if there is a reason these accounts have not yet been laid... - Broadband Service Provision
753. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that all small primary schools are retained and enhanced and that high speed broadband is installed in all these schools; and... - School Transport Provision
754. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 390 of 9 December 2014 the additional mileage that would be incurred by Bus Éireann if it altered the... - Broadband Service Provision
755. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide in tabular form by county the schools that did not apply for broadband connection; and if she will make a statement on the... - Schools Building Projects Applications
756. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on plans for a new school (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Student Grant Scheme Applications
757. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will approve and expedite a Student Universal Support Ireland grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she... - Momentum Programme
758. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills regarding the use of Momentum courses and the progression rates of persons getting work from these courses, the reason there is no extra payments... - Psychological Assessments
760. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a primary school pupil (details supplied) in County Cork will have an assessment of their needs; and if she will make a statement on the... - State Examinations
762. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a child (details supplied) in County Cork will be assessed as they need an up to date educational report to apply for reasonable... - Schools Building Projects Status
763. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow currently on schedule for delivery by the end of 2016; and if she will make... - Schools Building Projects Expenditure
764. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the capital funding applications open to Salerno secondary school to fund the building of a multi-purpose sports and general activities hall at... - School Staffing
765. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 395 of 9 December 2014, if the recommendation is that schools should differentiate between English... - School Accommodation
766. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) in County Kildare may permanently remain in the school in which it is currently occupying; if not, the reasons for... - Teacher Secondment
767. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if approval will be provided to the extension of secondments of directors of education centres; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Home Tuition Scheme Provision
768. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 194 to 197, inclusive, of 16 October 2014, in view of the internal e-mail sent by one of her officials on... - Schools Building Contractors
769. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of the pay and conditions of employment clause attached to the Kishoge community college, Lucan, County Dublin public... - Home Tuition Scheme Funding
770. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 152 of 12 November 2014, the reason for her Department stating in its correspondence of 1 November 2010... - Special Educational Needs Service Provision
771. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on advances her Department has made with respect to policy on physical restraint intervention from a health and safety... - State Examinations
772. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if circumstances may be changed where a repeat leaving certificate student may sit one exam per day due to medical conditions. [49662/14] - Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
773. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork is not entitled to a Student Universal Support Ireland grant; and if she will make a... - Special Educational Needs Service Provision
774. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding special needs assistant hours in respect of a child (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement... - Schools Building Projects Applications
775. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for capital funding for a sports hall by a post-primary school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if... - Departmental Bodies Data
776. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of agencies quangos or other bodies within, funded by or established by her Department which have been scrapped, merged or reduced... - Decentralisation Programme Data
777. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the agencies or sections from her Department that were decentralised during the period 1997 to 2011; the travel costs and expenses incurred by... - Apprenticeship Programmes
778. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to address the situation that enough persons (details supplied) with suitable trades are not becoming available in the workforce here;... - State Examinations Appeals
779. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is possible to challenge the chief examiner's assessment of an answer in a leaving certificate appeal; if so, the appropriate procedure;... - Special Educational Needs Service Provision
780. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding funding for a course; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1059/15] - State Examinations
781. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will list the additional attributes for students which would be achieved by teachers correcting their own students work in a... - Educational Disadvantage
782. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a bursary scheme for children graduated from DEIS schools; and if so, the application procedure for this scheme. [1076/15] - Child Protection
783. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that have not implemented the Stay Safe programme; the number that have indicated to her Department that they will not be... - Teachers' Remuneration
784. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide in tabular form the starting salary grade for a newly employed teacher at both primary and post primary level for each year... - Further Education and Training Programmes Funding
786. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options open to an institution (details supplied) regarding funding for courses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1111/15] - Departmental Expenditure
787. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total moneys paid by her Department to external consultants, professional companies or advisers under the Action Plan for Jobs in each year... - School Accommodation
788. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for funding from a school (details supplied) in County Cork; the status of the application; when a decision... - Education and Training Boards
789. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide in tabular form for each of the past three years the number of external training programmes tendered and delivered in... - Special Educational Needs Service Provision
790. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to increase special needs assistance in the schools in Ballymun, Dublin in view of the current lack of sufficient assistance in... - Higher Education Institutions
791. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the procedures in place to monitor use of public moneys provided to the Union of Students of Ireland. [1268/15] - Data Protection
792. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills regarding the primary online database, if she will provide in tabular form the Government Departments including her Department, agencies and... - Departmental Legal Cases
793. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding victims of sexual abuse; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1340/15] - Special Educational Needs Service Provision
794. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when assistive technology will be made available in respect of a child (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on... - Schools Building Projects Status
795. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a permanent building will be found for a school (details supplied) in County Cork. [1348/15] - Site Acquisitions
796. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the purchase of a site for the new community college in Carrigtwohill, County Cork; and if she will make a statement on... - Teachers' Remuneration
797. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe for the completion of the internal job evaluation to be carried out in University College Cork to establish the correct rate of pay... - Institutes of Technology
798. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her view on whether it is appropriate for an educational institution (details supplied) to withhold a qualification from a student on the grounds... - National Educational Welfare Board Remit
799. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the legal threshold for excluding students from primary and post-primary schools on a temporary and permanent basis. [1367/15] - Student Support Schemes
800. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial supports available to postgraduate students in the arts and humanities with the exception of the excellent schemes operated by the... - Schools Establishment
801. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will publish the Report on the Configuration and Development of Post-Primary Schools in Limerick City, Croom and Pallaskenry for the... - School Transport Eligibility
802. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding support required in respect of a person in County Monaghan; and if she will make a... - Data Protection
803. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is any penalty for parents who do not supply PPS numbers of their children to schools as part of the school surveys of pupils on behalf... - Inniúlacht sa Ghaeilge sa Stát Seirbhís
804. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills bunaithe ar an treoir a thug an Roinn Caiteachas Phoiblí agus Athchóirithe do gach Roinn, cad é líon agus cad iad gráid... - Departmental Expenditure
805. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide in tabular form the total photography costs for her Department per annum in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014; the costs incurred... - Public Relations Contracts Data
806. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide in tabular form the use of external public relations firms employed by her Department per annum in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014;... - Special Educational Needs Service Provision
807. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the changes proposed regarding learning support and resource teacher allocation; if she will address the concerns raised by a school principal... - Schools Building Projects Administration
808. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of construction-related projects her Department and State bodies under the aegis of her Department have signed public works contracts... - Special Educational Needs Service Provision
809. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to implement the model of resource teaching and learning support proposed by the National Council for Special Education; and if she... - School Staffing
810. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional primary and secondary school teachers that have been employed for each of the past seven years; and if she will make a... - Teacher Recruitment
811. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures she has taken, and those of her predecessor, to recruit additional post-primary teachers; and if she will make a statement on the... - Teachers' Remuneration
812. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department requested its payroll provider to develop the software necessary to release the increments deferred under the Haddington Road... - Departmental Staff Remuneration
824. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if increments due to be paid to staff in her Department were paid on the due date. [1530/15] - Teachers' Remuneration
825. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a definitive date by which payroll difficulties will be resolved satisfactorily. [1531/15] - Departmental Staff Data
827. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons in her Department who have been tasked with ensuring that difficulties with her Department’s payroll in respect of... - Teachers' Remuneration
832. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a definitive date for the payment of the revised scale for 2011 entrants. [1538/15] - School Transport Eligibility
842. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the school transport service of Bus Éireann has not yet arranged school transport for a group travelling between locations... - Teachers' Remuneration
843. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which teachers will receive the increments they are entitled to under Haddington Road agreement. [1551/15] - Schools Building Projects Status
844. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress regarding the replacement of the current school building of a school (details supplied) in County Galway with a new building; when... - Site Acquisitions
846. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will arrange a meeting with representatives of her Department to include the senior architect and Clare County Council to discuss and... - Schools Building Projects Status
847. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the schedule now being followed in respect of the proposed development of a second level school at Kingswood Heights, Tallaght, Dublin 24; and if... - Departmental Records
849. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason her Department plans to store PPS numbers of primary school pupils for 30 years; the plans her Department has in place to ensure the... - Consultancy Contracts Data
850. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of all consultancy firms engaged by her Department during 2014; if she will also provide details of all the relevant... - Third Level Staff Recruitment
851. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will intervene with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in order that third level colleges may be permitted to fill posts... - Special Educational Needs Service Provision
852. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if extra special needs assistant hours will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if she will make a... - Schools Refurbishment
853. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary that has applied for an extension; the timeframe for completion of works;... - Gaelscoileanna Issues
854. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the reduction of an entire class of available spaces at a Gaelscoil (details supplied) in County Kildare; if her attention has been... - Schools Building Projects Status
855. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of plans for the new building in respect of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 9 where works were due to commence in 2014. [1688/15] - Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
856. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review a SUSI application which has been refused (details supplied) under section 14 (4) of the Student Support Act 2011 and... - SOLAS Staffing
857. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of personnel currently employed by SOLAS head office; the skill sets employed within this group; the total salary cost associated with... - Education and Training Boards Establishment
858. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of former FÁS employees reassigned or employed to each education and training board; the global budgets assigned to each ETB for... - Education and Training Boards Staff
859. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of adult education officers and adult guidance counsellors employed by each ETB; the number of additional such officers allocated to... - Gaelscoileanna Issues
861. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the limiting of the numbers of Gaelscoileanna around the State by patrons who seek to defend numbers at competitor schools... - Apprenticeship Programmes
862. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way a person who did not finish their electrical apprenticeship, but who has been working and practising with different electrical companies... - School Transport Eligibility
863. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the granting of permanent status to a school (details supplied) in County Clare, if she will now sanction transport for students in... - EU Directives
864. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide in tabular form the number of EU directives which remain to be implemented within her Department; the names of these... - Legislative Programme
865. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide in tabular form the number, name and date of Bills initiated in her Department that have been subject to the pre-legislative... - Departmental Staff Data
867. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of secondments from her Department to external private firms in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and to date in 2015; the firms involved;... - Departmental Staff
869. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has a policy regarding secondments from and within her Department to external firms; when the policy was initiated and last...
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